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it's because of the thing that lost president obama the first presidential debate two weeks ago which was him trying to explain how mitt romney can't be trusted on the deficit by trying to do the math for everyone live on tv. saying something that sounded in translation like you have a large number with a trillion in it and some smaller trillions that when you add them up you subtract and get a number that's positive. do you follow me? president obama during that first debate was trying to do the math over and over and over again as a way of explaining that what mr. romney is proposing would be a recipe for massive deficits. really there is no way you can do the things mr. romney says he's going to do without running up massive deficits. instead of making up memorable arguments that made him the more likable and effective of the two debaters president obama instead tried to prove that thing about the math. president obama tried to explain what's so wrong with thinking that mitt romney is a guy who should be taken seriously on the deficit. he was trying to explain that without a white
it's because of the thing that lost president obama the first presidential debate two weeks ago which was him trying to explain how mitt romney can't be trusted on the deficit by trying to do the math for everyone live on tv. saying something that sounded in translation like you have a large number with a trillion in it and some smaller trillions that when you add them up you subtract and get a number that's positive. do you follow me? president obama during that first debate was trying to do...
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was the biggest mistake president obama made. it was wrong. then last night -- >> we're going to be finished by 2014, and when i'm president, we'll make sure we bring our troops out by the end of 2014. >> it's the biggest mistake president obama had ever made. mitt romney, forget it. i'll espouse it too. i don't feel like talking about it. afghanistan is not the only issue. even just on international affairs. to be the guy who didn't mention the war at all in your convention speech, to being the guy who still made no mentions of veterans last night, even as the president went back and talked about veterans, still nothing from mitt romney. then a turn on your policy two weeks before the election, an election that will decide if you become the commander of the troops in the war that you're ignoring. two weeks before the election as if that's something that requires no explanation, and you're just assuming people don't care about it enough to notice? i use this term with hesitance, that but reflects a lack of seriousness about somet
was the biggest mistake president obama made. it was wrong. then last night -- >> we're going to be finished by 2014, and when i'm president, we'll make sure we bring our troops out by the end of 2014. >> it's the biggest mistake president obama had ever made. mitt romney, forget it. i'll espouse it too. i don't feel like talking about it. afghanistan is not the only issue. even just on international affairs. to be the guy who didn't mention the war at all in your convention speech,...
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he had been plotting that move behind president obama's back. there was speculation that he was going to have to step down because of something related to the benghazi attack, which he was scheduled to testify on next week. before we knew for sure this he was going and why, the theories and the breathless speculation about why david petraeus was resigning went all the way up to and included the idea that maybe he was stepping down to start running as a republican for president in 2016 right now. until we knew what happened, people were crawling up the walls about this announcement from david petraeus today. and then andrea broke the story and david petraeus is leaving the cia because he had an extramarital affair. it was a personal matter. just an unbelievable news day today. joining us now is andrea mitche mitchell. congratulations on this scoop. thanks for being here. >> thank you. i have to tell you. i don't take any pleasure in this in the sense that this is really a personal tragedy. and there are families involved on all sides. and the men
he had been plotting that move behind president obama's back. there was speculation that he was going to have to step down because of something related to the benghazi attack, which he was scheduled to testify on next week. before we knew for sure this he was going and why, the theories and the breathless speculation about why david petraeus was resigning went all the way up to and included the idea that maybe he was stepping down to start running as a republican for president in 2016 right...
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much like obama's audiences in recent weeks. but they look different. they are noticeably whiter and older." republicans and more conservative candidates have had an advantage with older voters. john mccain, even as he was getting clobbered, he won among early voters. the point about whiter voters is very important to republicans this year. in the last 20 years, this is the percentage of the electorate voting for president that is white. so you see the most recent one is on the left. the percentage of white voters has been declining. down to 83% in 1996. down to 47% in the last election. and this is not a trend that was brought about by the first black presidential nominee. this is a long-term trend in the demographics of our country that predated president obama running for office. what republicans are now articulating in terms of hopes for tomorrow's election is they may be able in this election to stop that 20-year trend. republicans now arguing that if they can keep the proportion of the electorate that's white from continuing to drop, they might be
much like obama's audiences in recent weeks. but they look different. they are noticeably whiter and older." republicans and more conservative candidates have had an advantage with older voters. john mccain, even as he was getting clobbered, he won among early voters. the point about whiter voters is very important to republicans this year. in the last 20 years, this is the percentage of the electorate voting for president that is white. so you see the most recent one is on the left. the...
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president obama is reaching out to yet another part of the democratic base. earlier this week, the president appeared at the annual convention of the national urban league in new orleans. in his speech there, he announced a new initiative aimed directly at the african-american community. >> we have made it our mission to make a higher education more affordable for every american who wants to go to school. that's why tomorrow i'm establishing the first ever white house initiative on educational excellence for african-americans. so that every child, so that every child has greater access to a complete and competitive education from the time they're born all through the time they get a career. >> yesterday at the white house, with our very own reverend al sharpton at his side, president obama signed an executive order establishing the white house initiative on educational excellence for african-americans. it's an initiative designed to give african-american children better access to quality education, improve their education outcomes, reduce the dropout rate, cl
president obama is reaching out to yet another part of the democratic base. earlier this week, the president appeared at the annual convention of the national urban league in new orleans. in his speech there, he announced a new initiative aimed directly at the african-american community. >> we have made it our mission to make a higher education more affordable for every american who wants to go to school. that's why tomorrow i'm establishing the first ever white house initiative on...
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four years ago this week, presidential candidate senator barack obama was wrapping up a worldwide tour through europe and the middle east. designed to amp up his foreign policy credentials. here's what that looked like. as many as 200,000 people crowded their way into berlin's tear garden park to hear senator obama's vision for the world in july of 2008 and to cheer. and cheer, and cheer some more. >> the greatest danger of all is to allow nuance to divide us from one another, the walls between old allies on either side of the atlantic cannot stand. the walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. the walls between races and tribes, natives and immigrants, christians and muslims and jews cannot stand. these now are the walls we must tear down. >> senator obama was greeted abroad like a political rock star. and not just by his tens of thousands of adoring fans. as frank rich put it at the time, senator obama was treated like a, quote, president in waiting by fourn heads of state and the media, too. four years later, it's election season again and ther
four years ago this week, presidential candidate senator barack obama was wrapping up a worldwide tour through europe and the middle east. designed to amp up his foreign policy credentials. here's what that looked like. as many as 200,000 people crowded their way into berlin's tear garden park to hear senator obama's vision for the world in july of 2008 and to cheer. and cheer, and cheer some more. >> the greatest danger of all is to allow nuance to divide us from one another, the walls...
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many democratic talking points on the sunday shows this weekend and this new video from the obama campaign. trying to force the romney folks to at least try to come up with an answer to some of these questions about why he's offshored his money. so far, the romney campaign response to this line of criticism is that it is "disgusting." which is a very powerful adjective when deployed in a political context but just saying the word disgusting does not actually answer any of the questions. it is probably not a coincidence that the mitt romney swiss bank account cayman island creepy zil air attack is being full-court pressed by the democrats at the same time that the democratic president is rolling out his own policy proposal that we should not renew the bush tax cuts for the richest sliver of people in this country. the president has long said that this is the policy that he supports. but today was the day that they chose to formally roll out this as a proposal. >> i'm calling on congress to extend the tax cuts for the 98% of americans who make less than $250,000 for another year. i believe i
many democratic talking points on the sunday shows this weekend and this new video from the obama campaign. trying to force the romney folks to at least try to come up with an answer to some of these questions about why he's offshored his money. so far, the romney campaign response to this line of criticism is that it is "disgusting." which is a very powerful adjective when deployed in a political context but just saying the word disgusting does not actually answer any of the...
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he's been -- had this is the message of the week. they tried it in a big way with the stunt, with the reporters in tow. they did kind of blow it. they blew it in two ways. first, they did this on the day that obama campaign is spending all of its resources to highlight mitt romney's time as governor. and the big substantive problem with mitt romney trying to push the solyndra story is that mitt romney himself did the exact same thing in massachusetts while he was the goner of that state. his solyndra, his company is that got taxpayer money to try to build them up and create jobs and invest in important new technologies but then they went bust, his companies like that in massachusetts, his solyndras were called acusphere. it was also one called ever green solar. these companies got millions of taxpayer dollars from mitt romney as governor of massachusetts and then they went bust. and, yes, some of the companies were run by big mitt romney campaign donors. you probably have not heard a lot about this part of mitt romney's time as gover
he's been -- had this is the message of the week. they tried it in a big way with the stunt, with the reporters in tow. they did kind of blow it. they blew it in two ways. first, they did this on the day that obama campaign is spending all of its resources to highlight mitt romney's time as governor. and the big substantive problem with mitt romney trying to push the solyndra story is that mitt romney himself did the exact same thing in massachusetts while he was the goner of that state. his...
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we are three weeks out from election day. but people are voting now, right? people are voting early and by absentee ballot, across the country, including in the swing states. and the early word is pretty good for the president. i mean, every snap poll taken after last night's debate showed president obama as the winner of the debate. the polling outfit ppp even did a swing state specific snap poll in colorado. ppp is generally seen as a slightly democratic leaning firm, but their sample for their colorado voters watching the debate last night actually skewed a little bit conservative. and those colorado voters overall thought president obama won. even better for the obama campaign, the margin of victory for the president was particularly large among the independents who were watching that debate. which is exactly who the president wants to be winning over. you know, it's funny, one of the things we have learned over the course of this campaign is that mr. romney doesn't like to do stuff the morning after big events. at least, they don't like to have big, publ
we are three weeks out from election day. but people are voting now, right? people are voting early and by absentee ballot, across the country, including in the swing states. and the early word is pretty good for the president. i mean, every snap poll taken after last night's debate showed president obama as the winner of the debate. the polling outfit ppp even did a swing state specific snap poll in colorado. ppp is generally seen as a slightly democratic leaning firm, but their sample for...
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there were two ties and obama led in 17. that's not what we were seeing two weeks ago where romney pulled ahead in virginia and colorado and florida and had drown ohio down to a one-point lead. if anything, obama has momentum. he was declared the winner of the final two debates. i'm not sure how the hurricane is playing for him, but his numbers ticked up. that's why the states that seem toss uppy seem like they are more firmly in the president's favor. >> let me ask you, and i didn't warn you i was going to ask you this, but you have been the subject of a lot of criticism in this last week in particular as if the polling model that you built at "the new york times" and the way you explain the polling is somehow biased or wrong or evil. i feel like you are waging a one-man war against pneumonia rossty in explaining how polling works. how has the week been? >> it's been a trip where you become a subject of conversation yourself and there's this celebrity level attached to it that's new for me e. but there are other websites th
there were two ties and obama led in 17. that's not what we were seeing two weeks ago where romney pulled ahead in virginia and colorado and florida and had drown ohio down to a one-point lead. if anything, obama has momentum. he was declared the winner of the final two debates. i'm not sure how the hurricane is playing for him, but his numbers ticked up. that's why the states that seem toss uppy seem like they are more firmly in the president's favor. >> let me ask you, and i didn't warn...
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the obama campaign released this chart this week showing how many years worth of tax returns the last four presidents released as they campaigned for office. they're putting this out because they think mr. romney has been wrong when he asserted he's following precedent. he released eight years. george w. bush released ten. clinton released 12 years. poppy bush released 14 years. then they added on another guy, the last blue column, that is george romney, who is just a candidate for president. he of course never became president, but he is mitt romney's dad. so what's normal in presidential politics is to release many years of your tax returns. the romney campaign if they cont wanted to could come back and say all those people who became president and my dad released more than five years, sure, that's a precedent. but there's also another precedent, john mccain only released two years. the romney campaign if they wanted to could make that case. john mccain did only release two years of his tax returns when he ran for president. here's the political problem for the romney campaign on ta
the obama campaign released this chart this week showing how many years worth of tax returns the last four presidents released as they campaigned for office. they're putting this out because they think mr. romney has been wrong when he asserted he's following precedent. he released eight years. george w. bush released ten. clinton released 12 years. poppy bush released 14 years. then they added on another guy, the last blue column, that is george romney, who is just a candidate for president....
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mitt romney technically clinched enough delegates for the nomination this week. but the first ad he ran that wasn't against one of his republican opponents but was against president obama, do you remember that first ad? and what the big scandal was about it? it was this ad. way back in november. mr. romney still a month and a half away from the iowa caucuses but he was already going after president obama in november 2011 ad. in this first anti-obama ad, he went after president obama in a way that was really blatantly flagrantly untrue. it wasn't just some politics lie. it wasn't like some variant interpretation of some contested event or nuance about something which liberals and conservatives disagree. it was a flat out, run of the mill, unambiguous lie. here's the romney ad. >> you need to provide relief for homeowners. it's going to take a new direction. if we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose. >> that's what the first anti-obama mitt romney ad of the general election campaign quoted the president as saying. if we keep talking about the econom
mitt romney technically clinched enough delegates for the nomination this week. but the first ad he ran that wasn't against one of his republican opponents but was against president obama, do you remember that first ad? and what the big scandal was about it? it was this ad. way back in november. mr. romney still a month and a half away from the iowa caucuses but he was already going after president obama in november 2011 ad. in this first anti-obama ad, he went after president obama in a way...